Still life

About this book

In his previous works, artist Lucas Lenci created photographic essays that tensioned the silent and static nature of photography. Now, in Still Life, Lenci deepens these issues by creating a parallel between photography and taxidermy, leading us to well-engendered philosophical reflections on the binomials life and death, existence and endurance, archive and survival, still and life. Such reflections permeate the reason for the existence of the images, the fleeting beauty of birds and, ultimately, of ourselves. "The taxidermized birds arise cunningly in Still Life, having emerged from a dark under-ground world until reaching towards the rare fied light of epic outlines that Lenci meticulously constructed during four years of visiting taxidermy studios in France and in Brazil." --Page [99]